Suzie Frankfurt was a prominent American interior decorator.
Suzanne was an employee at the advertising agency Young & Rubicam

Young & Rubicam

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 in 1955, where she met her husband, company director Stephen Frankfurt. Stephen also worked as a film title designer. The two wed the next year and conceived two boys, later divorcing in 1968.

She was also an early collaborator and lifelong friend of Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol

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. The two came to meet in 1959 at art exhibit in the New York Plaza Hotel

Plaza Hotel

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Frankfurt popularized 18th and 19th-century Russian furniture among corporate raid

Corporate raid

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ers of the '70s and '80s, whose client list included Robert Redford

Robert Redford

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, Robert Mapplethorpe

Robert Mapplethorpe

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, and David L.